Yes. We didn't get our first color set until '68 or '69, and I recall it being finicky and a lot of trouble, as TVs tended to be back then. Even then, if I wanted to watch something that no one else wanted to watch, I got exiled to the small black and white set upstairs.
I am very grateful that everything came together to create one of the best Christmas specials. Linus's monologue is an essential part of the special's greatness, in my opinion.
I had read an article years ago that Schulz was willing to walk away entirely if it was not included. By that time he had made way more money doing a comic strip than he had ever dreamed of. I could not remember where I had read it and could not locate another source, so I reluctantly pulled it from the video.
This special got way better to me when I grew up and rewatched it. I mean as a kid, I saw it as a simple story being told through, but have, along with now, found it to be very heartwarming. But as an adult, I see how well written it is like it’s way of addressing how Christmas is generally celebrated than its real meaning.
Though I loved it as a kid, I related more to it as an adult, particularly since I worked in retail management and the holidays are the most stressful time of the year for that profession. One can very easily lose sight of the true meaning of Christmas among black friday shoppers, merchandising, stock issues, dealing with temp workers, etcetera.
I have Always picked the Charlie Brown tree since I was able to pick the tree.... Me Mum told me stories of how she was embarrassed as I picked the "worst/Best" tree on the lot. The tree salesman would always offer a better tree at a huge discount but I would throw a tenter tantrum.... So we would have a Charlie Brown tree in the basement den for me.... LIFE WAS GREAT..... THANK YOU FOR POSTING
A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer , Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is coming to town, formed my childhood at Christmas. I loved them all. It was a great time to be a kid.
I remember The Grinch, Charlie Brown's Christmas, Rudolph, Santa is Coming to Town, Frosty, Little Drummer Boy. They all were shown in December, the programs were short and I watched them on our black and white t.v. No color just different shades of grey. And we loved it
Gentle charm and guileless spirituality will always be hard sells on such a crass medium--which doesn't even show "A Charlie Brown Christmas" for free anymore! It's hard to imagine this show not existing.
Count your blessings. For decades before Mr. Rich Man bought this programme and whisked it away to pay television, the networks aired it with deep cuts so they could stuff more ads in. They did the same thing with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, another show from the same era that was likewise a stiff criticism of commercialised Christmas. I hated watching those shows in the 80s and 90s, fully aware of the passages (including whole verses of the Grinch song) that had been chopped out. Somewhere I eventually got clean copies of both on VHS and only watched that.
@@RobMacKendrick CBS eventually stopped shortening what they aired, using a bit more than 30 minutes to show it, usually filling out a whole hour with later animation such as "Christmastime is Here Again, Charlie Brown".
I could never imagine a consistently "happy and upbeat" Charlie Brown, so why would Coke want a happy, fast moving, upbeat production from such a character as he? He was a deeper, thoughtful, serious, almost dark at times, type of character.
Seriously, did the Coke suits ever read the actual comics? Melancholy was a vital ingredient in the Schulz brand. Coke complaining that A Charlie Brown Christmas was slow-paced and dark reminds me of Disney bitching about the Goth tone of Nightmare Before Christmas. You hired this guy, you should have known what you were getting!
@@Sailormac2 That is true. I read the paperbacks of the Peanuts as a kid, sure Charlie was LITTLE more upbeat and optimistic in earlier times, but not by that much.
I have been watching this Christmas show for 57 years and its just nice to play it, All my kids grew up watching it. Today like in music they cannot seem to make shows like this anymore.
As far back as I remember, we watched The Charlie Brown Christmas , Thanksgiving & Great Pumpkin, they were the cartoons that set the mood for the up and coming holiday season, we never missed them. The most annoying thing is how so many dissect such a classic show that has endured throughout the years. The sequence where Linus does the monologue about the true meaning of Christmas, offsets the general cartoon atmosphere shown from the beginning. The sequence itself explains the meaning in simple terms but gets the message across, it's not a brainwashing, religious subliminal message in a popular cartoon, it's truth in its simplest form. if you think about it, wanting to make issue of certain parts of the script, then focus on when Lucy says that Christmas is run by an Eastern Syndicate, does any one want to pursue that avenue of silly thought? This cartoon set a standard for television during the holidays when television was still new.
I taped it years ago. So my kids could watch it several times at Christmas. Haven't seen it since I no longer have any kids at home. It's like everything else. In the 60s- 2010, we didn't have smartphones so kids watched TV. Today kids and adults under 60 bury their heads in their phones. But, I also have one but I just use it at home. Technology makes things easier at times but it also erases simpler things. Besides school sports, kids rarely even venture outside to play and even when outside they sit around talking to each other on their phones by texting. It's not just kids. Recently ,at a store, a 20 something walked all over me because she was on a cell phone. She looked at me like it was my fault and kept right on talking. I'm 77 years old. Lucky, I didn't fall.
I think it's a shame that CBS will not be airing it. I remember how excited I got when I was a kid when, right before the special would come on, CBS had the word "Special" going around in a circle. This was before home video, so if you didn't see it when it aired, you were stuck having to wait until next year.
Bill Melendez wasn't just a former Disney animator, he was an animator for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Bros. before he started his own studio.
He was an Animator at Playhouse Pictures when they did the original Peanuts animation for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and the commercials for the sponsor, The Ford Motor Company. That was before Melendez started his studio.
I remember the first time this special aired. I loved it and wanted more. The Charlie Brown’s All Stars was the next one I remember. Loved it even more. The Charlie Brown specials were highlights of my childhood.
My late, beloved mom used to just LOVE Charlie Brown and Snoopy! We used to just love watching this together, along with my favorite movie It's a WONDERFUL Life. Thanks for bringing back warm, pleasant memories! 😍💖🥰
The magic of Peanuts is that it simultaneously captures both the innocence and tragedy of childhood. It makes us nostalgic for a simpler time of our lives while at the same time reminding us that for a lot of us it wasn't necessarily the happiest time either. I will forever be grateful to Charles Schultz for making those of us who never made the little league all-star team feel special.
@@Otokichi786 I agree 1000% with you. I also have a Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, and also have the Great Pumpkin and the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on DVD too.
I loved Charlie Brown ever since I can remember seeing the Christmas one when I was 7-8. They would play Dolly Madison treats commercials. I'm 60 now and still bobbing my head to Linus and Lucy.
I watched the very first airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". My parents had a Christmas party, and I was there with my siblings and cousins in front of a black-and-white "portable" (meaning a television with a handle on top to move it around - and "rabbit ears").
In late Fall 1965, the local CBS affiliate in Richmond VA was hyping this show ,and the local after school kid's show, "Dandy Beagle and Sooper Dog" had a contest. If one of their audience could draw the best "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" he or she could win a paperback, full color printed adaptation of the tv show, a show NOBODY had even see yet. Being "a budding cartoonist," as my first grade teacher called me, I took my shot, drew a Christmas tree, with Charlie Brown standing next to it. I sent my drawing in to WTVR and MISSED THE SHOW the day they announced the winner! AAUGH! The next day the kids in school told me I had won! Well, a week or so later, this little paperback book with that story in it showed up and it is on my bookshelf to this day. Fast forward 40 years and I was working in the animation industry and found myself working for Bill Melendez Productions, with Bill himself, AND Lee Mendelson. I worked on several "Peanuts" specials in the mid -2000's, and I got to help write and storyboard the very last "Charlie Brown" special his studio ever produced, right before Bill's death at age 91. In 2015, Bill's main director, now retired, called me and said, "It is the 50th anniversary of the Christmas special, YOU are doing the drawing for the commemorative limited edition "cel" that will be sold in galleries. The next year he tapped me again to do the 50th anniversary drawing for the "Great Pumpkin" cel. Here they are, along with some other people's artwork. artinsights.com/limited-editions-from-peanuts-tv-specials-make-us-want-to-do-a-snoopy-happy-dance/
Thank you for posting this video. I was born at the end of October 1965, Halloween, to be exact. Within about six weeks from the first airing, it has been family watching ever since. This year, I have decorated my home in with Peanuts stuff. My family and friends loved it. Thanks again for giving me and my family holiday traditions that we cherish each year.
Funny enough, the Peanuts Christmas, the Grinch and even It's a Wonderful Life all suffered from not being well received on the beginning, but are now beloved classics!
Even though it's basically a kid's special, I appreciate the fact that they didn't use child like music in the show. Not many people are willing to use jazz in children productions. The Pink Panther cartoon is the only other one I can think of. Good ole Mancini!
When I went to college in 1983, I met a guy, my boyfriend's suitemate, who had spoken the voice of Schroeder. I just about fainted into his arms!!! I had grown up absolutely treasuring this special.
The networks probably believe there aren't enough of us fossils in the audience anymore to make these shows worth showing. Or our society is just growing more decadent -- probably both.
Have you watched more modern Christmas specials? They always have a smart-aleck tone that is the antithesis of the sincerity of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Today’s young people consider Schulz quaint and old-fashioned. (When I bemoaned Apple putting this stuff under lock and key on a social media app that shall remain nameless, I was told, “Who cares about that boring old crap? Let it die, already!”)
Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share... That refrain is the only reason Christmas remains as the only originally religious holiday on the US official calendar. However some of the references in the special are contexturally dated. Some still stand on their own now, but at the time they were parodies of false True Meaning of Christmas movies and shows popular in 1965. Lots of references and jabs at Miracle on 34th Street...the most popular Christmas show before 65...that is pretty much a Macy's and Gimbles PR film. A kid too mature and jaded to just enjoy Christmas. The quack psychiatrist resolving nothing. Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern Syndicate you know. The letter to Santa (which Schultz had lampooned several times in the strip and would in the Great Pumpkin). The play is basically a parody of all the TV sitcom Christmas episodes like Danny Thomas and Dick van Dyke Show which become stage musical variety shows. White Christmas, Holiday Inn and the jazz crooners that did tawdry Christmas comedies and office party humor like Rudolph the year before. All of that is in the first 20 minutes, then it is stripped away for a genuine message. Sort of a sneak attack.
I watched the first airing. I was quite young but I remember seeing it on the old 13 inch black and white RCA. Along with The Grinch who Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, it became a staple of Christmas for many years, (why am I such a misfit...still one of my favorite tunes from my youth). I'm glad they didn't give snoopy a voice. Having him move silently, whether he's skating, or evading capture by the Germans after his Sopwith Camel was taken out by the Red Barron adds to his charm. I do love the way he weeps when Schroeder plays the WWI tunes on his little piano. Snoopy was so cool NASA named a spacecraft after him. Doesn't get much better than that. I'm glad I was a kid when shows like this were being produced. I feel for kids today. We had Peanuts, Bullwinkle and Rocky, and Looney Tunes. No messaging, just good old fashioned fun, something our society doesn't do anymore. We have become a bunch of uptight, easily offended wimps who don't know how to laugh at the absurd, and trust me, there is more than enough absurd stuff to laugh at these days. As an aging coot my advice to the younger generation would be the same Sgt. Hulka passed along. "Lighten up Francis."
People who are experts don't always know what is best. I've experienced this many times in my professional life, as I'm sure many have. In the arts its usually those that break the molds that become the most memorable. Martin Scorcese comes to mind.
@@thereismoretothestory Van Gogh only sold a single painting in his life, and it was to his brother. People tend to drift towards what is trending or familiar, overlooking what is unique and special--until someone with the eye points it out to everyone else.
I am as well. Even in the 60's it was a brave stand to take. I had read years ago that Schultz was ready to walk away if it was not included. I could not find the reference for that so I left it out. Schultz also took heat when he included Franklin in the comic strip, and stood by the decision at the risk of losing newspapers.
Mentioning Vince Guaraldi here, he has another claim to fame, writing the tune, and a fellow named Werber providing lyrics to *Cast Your Fate To The Wind* which was a 1964 instrumental hit for British orchestra, Sounds Orchestral on British PYE's subsidiary label, Piccadilly (Issue No. 7N-35206) and a 1963 vocal hit for Mel Torme as "Cast Your Fate To The Winds"(adding an 's' to the title), issued as Atlantic 45-2183.
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" has always been a special favourite of mine. For those who might be interested, you can find it out here on UA-cam. Mr. Guaraldi was a wonderful talent and a great pick for the television special, "Charlie Brown Christmas." Cheers to all!
Wonderful video on an all-time-great Christmas special. In the mid 80s when I was a piano student, I received a book of sheet music for several songs, one of which is the song "Linus & Lucy." Unfortunately, I did not learn to play the song with any proficiency, but I still have the book well preserved in a frame hanging on a wall. ☺
Thank you for watching. I don't know anything about playing music, but I've been told by those that do that Linus and Lucy is more difficult to play than it sounds. I have four Vincent Guaraldi cd's of Peanuts music and listen to them often. Interesting how he would change up the instrumentals a little and do different versions of the same selections.
@@thereismoretothestory playing the song takes a lot more hand movement than I was accustomed to doing at the time as I was learning how to play piano in general, hence my difficulty in trying to learn the piece. And unfortunately, my piano lessons only lasted a couple of years while I was in jr. high school so I never did get a feel for playing the tune. On the cartoon bright-side, I learned how to play simplified versions of "Popeye the Sailor Man" and the theme for "The Pink Panther." lol
I remember watching this for the 1st time in 1970... I remember that specifically because we Lived in San Jose, CA and were visiting family in South Texas. So much I didn't know about this special. Thank you so much for posting this
I watched it on the very first night that it ever aired (I was 4 at the time) and have rarely missed it since. Unfortunately, with the disgusting greediness, that has taken it off "free" TV (Ironic as it's main theme is a rant against commercialism), I have missed it a couple of times, more recently! This year, I found a "link page" on You Tube, that sent me to a free video page, watched it and bookmarked it... 3 days later, I hit the bookmark and it had already been taken down! 😑I guess next year, I will do what I had to do with the Chuck Jones version of the Grinch and buy the DVD. 🤨
This is a very interesting follow up to the 1963 documentary that I just watched. It is mentioned in this video. (Also on UA-cam) I am so thankful to these channels that give us glimpses into the past.
7:22 These were the same men who chose Lost in Space over Star Trek. They were paid a vast sum to make these decisions, as people with such incredible perspicacity are scarce.
As soon as the ratings were known, CBS executives were amazed that more than half of all TV sets in the U.S. had watched the special- and that it was CBS' highest-rated program that evening. Of course, the next time they met with Lee Mendelson. they asked, "When can you have the next 'Peanuts' special ready?"
I have a weeping cherry tree that when I brought it home my husband said it looked like Charlie brown’s tree. He has been called Charlie since although he has grown magnificently👏😀 we still refer to him as Charlie when he needs taken care of
Too young to remember the special's first airing,but the first movie I ever saw in the theater was "Race for your life,Charlie Brown",my mom took my brother and I back when I was about 4 or 5 years old.
I really hope your channel continues to grow. The video a you’ve already posted are interesting and well researched. Can’t wait to see what the new year holds for you.
I think only reason why they cancel it is because I talk about religion in it.. Charles Schulz was a religious man and he was right to do what he wanted to do with that show I agree with Charles Schulz 100%... That's the true meaning of Christmas after all wasn't Santa Claus.. just because it's a Christmas show doesn't mean they have to put Santa Claus in it let's have a show that has the truth in it for a change way to go sparky
Schulz was a man of mixed beliefs. He never intended for the short to be anything religious, but he also didn't see any issue with using religious quotes in the film since it's really the main reason christmas was originally celebrated.
Not sure what any of this is based on as Charlie Brown Christmas has never been cancelled (the rights have changed based on who buys it) and there's still tons of religious references on tv.
Oh good grief. When I was a child, born in 1963, you could only see this show once every year. Now, you can buy the DVD, download it online, and watch it anytime you desire. It used to be an event, but no more. That's why they stopped airing it every year, ratings, advertising dollars. It's because of money, and not religion.
I made sure my grandkids and great grandkids had the Charlie Brown movies that way they can watch year round the christmas Thanksgiving Halloween the summer vacation and the trip to Europe were all great shows for kids to watch
I just turned 14 and in the 8th grade when A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on KSL channel 5 in Salt Lake City. Of course, we had a Magnavox portable black and white TV but that did not dampen my enthusiasm as the story unfolded in all its Peanuts glory. The 30 minute show was so uplifting and I wanted to see it again. Well, so did everyone else as it airs every year on some channel or network. By the way, The Vince Guaraldi Trio was not a new musical surprise that debuted in this now perennial masterpiece. Local disc jockey Will Lucas of the erstwhiler KALL radio in Salt Lake City had been reading the daily Peanuts comic strip from the tribune Monday through Friday on his morning show since the early 1960's. To the backdrop of Vince Guaraldi's Lucy and Linus soundtrack! How appropriate!
Immediately following the premiere and the phone lines at CBS headquarters began lighting up, the executives present were expecting to hear a litany of complaints. Instead, as one executive described it, “all Heaven broke loose.”
I was thinking the same thing when it said Coke was it's original sponsor. I always remember Peanuts being sponsored by Dolly Madison. Must be our age to remember this.
Everyone has mispronounced Charles' name for so long that it spawned his own Mandela Effect. It is Schulz not Schultz like Hogan's Heroes John Banner. By the way, Hogan's Heroes, another CBS show, was in its first season when this aired.
Look at Hollywood today and the blend of streaming and broadcast executives. Today, A Charlie Brown Christmas would NEVER get green-lighted. Charles Schultz was his own man and true to himself, something reflected in this special. I live down the street from his childhood home which was in a building recently torn down. Much of the old neighborhood is intact and the old vibe still comes through.
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Whoa...Where did you find all this cool inside information?! What's your source?...Did you read Charles Schulz's life story in a book? Thanks for enlightening! Impressive.
Even as a child I never understood the Hans Christian Anderson story. Even suspending disbelief long enough to imagine a tree having consciousness, why would it want to be chopped down, then adorned with decorations as it died over the course of several days, and afterwards probably just thrown out with the trash? Sounds like a horrible demise.
Thank you for watching. I hope learning a little bit about the history of it gave you even more appreciation for the show as it did for me when I was researching. It is a shame that CBS gave it up. I hate to think that, in the future, it might only be seen by those who subscribe to certain streaming platforms. I grew up in an era before home video, so being able to watch it every year made it all the more special. If you missed it. That was it until next Christmas season.
When I first saw it, I thought it sucked. The animation is just so horrid, and I thought it was just a typical Charlie Brown comic strip. Now, all these decades later, it has a certain charm to it but at the end of the day I think only the music score saved it from the trash bin.
I didn't watch it, sorry. To me it became nonexistent when Apple Corp bought it and made it exclusive. Talk about a "bad Apple" company! I own no Apple products.
You're not upset that Coca-Cola wanted it as basically a major sponser for Coke? You're not upset a broadcasting company was making probably more money than Schultz or the Producers did. And that you'd be ok with 5 minutes worth of advertising was shown every year. I don't order things from Amazon. But if the show was on Amazon Prime would you be just as critical?
@@leftcoaster67 yes. When I started watching this there were adds, it's what I grew up with. My parents explained that we have to suffer through the ads to keep tv free. I'm not upset that Apple owns it, although I despise the company for claiming to be a US company, I'm upset that any pay service owns it. As for Apple, they think in this country, they produce nothing in the US, zero of their products have anything made in the USA.
Well, go figure. The Charlie Brown Christmas movie references the true meaning of Christmas in contrast to the commercialization of it, so naturally cBS would have been against it.
The last time I saw this on network tv it had a warning message up front "Warning this show has content that may be offensive to some". Really? That is where we are in terms of not wanting to offend anyone? It is Christmas. If those of other faiths want to make a show reflecting their faiths go ahead. I will watch it or not based on my desire. Everyone has the choice to choose a different channel or just turn the set off.
My mom and sister are giving in to cancel culture regarding Charlie Brown. "It's bullying" "It's peer pressure" "Linus is too old to have a blanket and suck his thumb"
@@brianarbenz1329 If you listen to the documentary they almost didn't have Linus say those lines from the Book of Luke. For some reason they didn't want a Christian statement in the feature.
@@TheAnubis57 They DID have him say the lines! They DID! How many times do you hear that they did something and think you're hearing they didn't. Of course the false martyr syndrome causes that. Christianity has government privileges other religions don't. The national motto of the U.S. was "Out of Many, One," until the government forcibly changed it in the 1950s to favor one religion over all others, unconstitutionally. It caused evangelicals to develop the expectations of the entitled mindset.
Repent and put your trust in Jesus. We're all sinners and deserve Hell, but Christ died on the cross for our sins. Anybody who puts their trust in Jesus will be saved. Read Roman's 3:10 and Revalation 3:20
"And they shall stand in despair before the white cliffs of the world, and shall chant from their empty tomes in vain, for their words are nothing! And Erú shall prevail against His enemies and they shall be cast into the Void, for their enchantments are naught and their gods are helpless before Him." (The Silmarillion, 17:82)
Correct. they were from the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael. After the first recording session, a couple of the kids were replaced, since they took the kids out for ice cream after the session, they didn't get home until *very* late (on a school night), and there were some irate parents. The director (naturally) wanted perfect takes, but in the spirit of the production, slightly less perfect takes were selected.
8:11 "So there you have 10 things you never knew about a special that anyone born after 1965 almost never saw." Do you have any idea what you're saying??
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for your encouraging words. It may sound strange, but I had not had time to check on the views due to my schedule. So when I saw your comment, I thought was a typo. Be sure to take a look at the other videos. If you're an Andy Griffith fan I've got one on Don Knotts, and one on A Christmas Story. I'm working on one now about one of Bill Murray's films, so be sure to check back.
Please forgive the pronunciation. The three videos on my channel are the only things I've ever narrated so I'm sure my skills will improve. Thanks for watching.
It still takes me back to the time I first saw it. It was 1965 and I watched it on an old black and white TV.
Same here
When I was 8.
I was born a month before this aired, but this became part of my childhood just the same.
Yes. We didn't get our first color set until '68 or '69, and I recall it being finicky and a lot of trouble, as TVs tended to be back then. Even then, if I wanted to watch something that no one else wanted to watch, I got exiled to the small black and white set upstairs.
I am very grateful that everything came together to create one of the best Christmas specials. Linus's monologue is an essential part of the special's greatness, in my opinion.
Agreed and I'm an atheist
I did the same monologue in school and I think he did it better
Linus's monologue is the best part of the whole cartoon!
Yes I agree. I also like the moment when they finish decorating the tree and are all standing around it.
I had read an article years ago that Schulz was willing to walk away entirely if it was not included. By that time he had made way more money doing a comic strip than he had ever dreamed of.
I could not remember where I had read it and could not locate another source, so I reluctantly pulled it from the video.
This is still my favorite Peanuts Special !!!!!
Love ...Great Pumpkin also. C B Thanksgiving receives some unbelievable flak from youngsters today who've been influenced by P. C.!
This special got way better to me when I grew up and rewatched it.
I mean as a kid, I saw it as a simple story being told through, but have, along with now, found it to be very heartwarming. But as an adult, I see how well written it is like it’s way of addressing how Christmas is generally celebrated than its real meaning.
For me as well. This definitely wasn't a favorite but as I got older I appreciated it more!!
Though I loved it as a kid, I related more to it as an adult, particularly since I worked in retail management and the holidays are the most stressful time of the year for that profession. One can very easily lose sight of the true meaning of Christmas among black friday shoppers, merchandising, stock issues, dealing with temp workers, etcetera.
I have Always picked the Charlie Brown tree since I was able to pick the tree.... Me Mum told me stories of how she was embarrassed as I picked the "worst/Best" tree on the lot. The tree salesman would always offer a better tree at a huge discount but I would throw a tenter tantrum....
So we would have a Charlie Brown tree in the basement den for me....
LIFE WAS GREAT.....
THANK YOU FOR POSTING
A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer , Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is coming to town, formed my childhood at Christmas. I loved them all. It was a great time to be a kid.
Don't forget the Grinch! All of them were a beloved part of childhood in the 60s and 70s.
@@carmarasmussen8118 Good call I missed that one. One of my favs.
I remember The Grinch, Charlie Brown's Christmas, Rudolph, Santa is Coming to Town, Frosty, Little Drummer Boy.
They all were shown in December, the programs were short and I watched them on our black and white t.v. No color just different shades of grey. And we loved it
Gentle charm and guileless spirituality will always be hard sells on such a crass medium--which doesn't even show "A Charlie Brown Christmas" for free anymore!
It's hard to imagine this show not existing.
Count your blessings. For decades before Mr. Rich Man bought this programme and whisked it away to pay television, the networks aired it with deep cuts so they could stuff more ads in. They did the same thing with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, another show from the same era that was likewise a stiff criticism of commercialised Christmas.
I hated watching those shows in the 80s and 90s, fully aware of the passages (including whole verses of the Grinch song) that had been chopped out. Somewhere I eventually got clean copies of both on VHS and only watched that.
@@RobMacKendrick CBS eventually stopped shortening what they aired, using a bit more than 30 minutes to show it, usually filling out a whole hour with later animation such as "Christmastime is Here Again, Charlie Brown".
@@alanr4447a Got enough complaints, I imagine.
I could never imagine a consistently "happy and upbeat" Charlie Brown, so why would Coke want a happy, fast moving, upbeat production from such a character as he? He was a deeper, thoughtful, serious, almost dark at times, type of character.
Not if you go back to the 1950s strips he was very different character
@@nightisright1873 He has always been insecure.
Seriously, did the Coke suits ever read the actual comics? Melancholy was a vital ingredient in the Schulz brand. Coke complaining that A Charlie Brown Christmas was slow-paced and dark reminds me of Disney bitching about the Goth tone of Nightmare Before Christmas. You hired this guy, you should have known what you were getting!
@@Sailormac2 That is true. I read the paperbacks of the Peanuts as a kid, sure Charlie was LITTLE more upbeat and optimistic in earlier times, but not by that much.
I have been watching this Christmas show for 57 years and its just nice to play it, All my kids grew up watching it. Today like in music they cannot seem to make shows like this anymore.
As far back as I remember, we watched The Charlie Brown Christmas , Thanksgiving & Great Pumpkin, they were the cartoons that set the mood for the up and coming holiday season, we never missed them. The most annoying thing is how so many dissect such a classic show that has endured throughout the years. The sequence where Linus does the monologue about the true meaning of Christmas, offsets the general cartoon atmosphere shown from the beginning. The sequence itself explains the meaning in simple terms but gets the message across, it's not a brainwashing, religious subliminal message in a popular cartoon, it's truth in its simplest form. if you think about it, wanting to make issue of certain parts of the script, then focus on when Lucy says that Christmas is run by an Eastern Syndicate, does any one want to pursue that avenue of silly thought? This cartoon set a standard for television during the holidays when television was still new.
This is the first year since 1965 that ACBC won't be shown over national or local airwaves.
Thanks Apple
@@dementedpurplechicken YEAH, THANKS APPLE!! WELL DONE!! The only reason we had this GEM last year was due to PBS, and PBS for KID'S...(Just Great...)
I taped it years ago. So my kids could watch it several times at Christmas. Haven't seen it since I no longer have any kids at home. It's like everything else. In the 60s- 2010, we didn't have smartphones so kids watched TV. Today kids and adults under 60 bury their heads in their phones. But, I also have one but I just use it at home. Technology makes things easier at times but it also erases simpler things. Besides school sports, kids rarely even venture outside to play and even when outside they sit around talking to each other on their phones by texting. It's not just kids. Recently ,at a store, a 20 something walked all over me because she was on a cell phone. She looked at me like it was my fault and kept right on talking. I'm 77 years old. Lucky, I didn't fall.
Thanks to the dicks that sold it to apple.
I think it's a shame that CBS will not be airing it. I remember how excited I got when I was a kid when, right before the special would come on, CBS had the word "Special" going around in a circle.
This was before home video, so if you didn't see it when it aired, you were stuck having to wait until next year.
Bill Melendez wasn't just a former Disney animator, he was an animator for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Bros. before he started his own studio.
He was an Animator at Playhouse Pictures when they did the original Peanuts animation for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and the commercials for the sponsor, The Ford Motor Company. That was before Melendez started his studio.
You forgot UPA.. He formed his independent company right after UPA was bought off.
I remember the first time this special aired. I loved it and wanted more. The Charlie Brown’s All Stars was the next one I remember. Loved it even more. The Charlie Brown specials were highlights of my childhood.
My late, beloved mom used to just LOVE Charlie Brown and Snoopy! We used to just love watching this together, along with my favorite movie It's a WONDERFUL Life. Thanks for bringing back warm, pleasant memories! 😍💖🥰
Imagine that....A Christmas special that actually mentions Christmas.....
The magic of Peanuts is that it simultaneously captures both the innocence and tragedy of childhood. It makes us nostalgic for a simpler time of our lives while at the same time reminding us that for a lot of us it wasn't necessarily the happiest time either. I will forever be grateful to Charles Schultz for making those of us who never made the little league all-star team feel special.
4:45 - In high school, I worked out how to play the main themes of "Linus and Lucy" on the piano, and wow'd my fellow band students...
I'm just sad charlie Browns not on TV except through apple tv . There are so many not going to know charlie I grew up with him
That is why I bought the DVD years ago so I won't have to Kowtow to a streaming service. (Physical Media Sets you Free!;)
@@Otokichi786 I agree 1000% with you. I also have a Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, and also have the Great Pumpkin and the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on DVD too.
I have all 3 specials on DVD as well. Bah humbug to ABC and Apple!!
They wonder why things disappear?
PBS was airing it, but Apple stopped that.
I loved Charlie Brown ever since I can remember seeing the Christmas one when I was 7-8. They would play Dolly Madison treats commercials. I'm 60 now and still bobbing my head to Linus and Lucy.
I had completely forgotten about the Dolly Madison commercials. Thanks for reminding me.
I watched the very first airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". My parents had a Christmas party, and I was there with my siblings and cousins in front of a black-and-white "portable" (meaning a television with a handle on top to move it around - and "rabbit ears").
In late Fall 1965, the local CBS affiliate in Richmond VA was hyping this show ,and the local after school kid's show, "Dandy Beagle and Sooper Dog" had a contest. If one of their audience could draw the best "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree" he or she could win a paperback, full color printed adaptation of the tv show, a show NOBODY had even see yet. Being "a budding cartoonist," as my first grade teacher called me, I took my shot, drew a Christmas tree, with Charlie Brown standing next to it. I sent my drawing in to WTVR and MISSED THE SHOW the day they announced the winner! AAUGH! The next day the kids in school told me I had won! Well, a week or so later, this little paperback book with that story in it showed up and it is on my bookshelf to this day. Fast forward 40 years and I was working in the animation industry and found myself working for Bill Melendez Productions, with Bill himself, AND Lee Mendelson. I worked on several "Peanuts" specials in the mid -2000's, and I got to help write and storyboard the very last "Charlie Brown" special his studio ever produced, right before Bill's death at age 91. In 2015, Bill's main director, now retired, called me and said, "It is the 50th anniversary of the Christmas special, YOU are doing the drawing for the commemorative limited edition "cel" that will be sold in galleries. The next year he tapped me again to do the 50th anniversary drawing for the "Great Pumpkin" cel. Here they are, along with some other people's artwork. artinsights.com/limited-editions-from-peanuts-tv-specials-make-us-want-to-do-a-snoopy-happy-dance/
Thank you for posting this video. I was born at the end of October 1965, Halloween, to be exact. Within about six weeks from the first airing, it has been family watching ever since. This year, I have decorated my home in with Peanuts stuff. My family and friends loved it. Thanks again for giving me and my family holiday traditions that we cherish each year.
Vince Guaraldi's score and Linus's recitation of the Nativity are especially noteworthy. Charles, Lee, Vince and Bill, may you all rest in peace.
Funny enough, the Peanuts Christmas, the Grinch and even It's a Wonderful Life all suffered from not being well received on the beginning, but are now beloved classics!
Even though it's basically a kid's special, I appreciate the fact that they didn't use child like music in the show. Not many people are willing to use jazz in children productions. The Pink Panther cartoon is the only other one I can think of. Good ole Mancini!
This isn't A Christmas special. This is THE Christmas special.
When I went to college in 1983, I met a guy, my boyfriend's suitemate, who had spoken the voice of Schroeder. I just about fainted into his arms!!! I had grown up absolutely treasuring this special.
The networks probably believe there aren't enough of us fossils in the audience anymore to make these shows worth showing. Or our society is just growing more decadent -- probably both.
Have you watched more modern Christmas specials? They always have a smart-aleck tone that is the antithesis of the sincerity of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Today’s young people consider Schulz quaint and old-fashioned. (When I bemoaned Apple putting this stuff under lock and key on a social
media app that shall remain nameless, I was told, “Who cares about that boring old crap? Let it die, already!”)
Olden times and ancient rhymes and love and dreams to share...
That refrain is the only reason Christmas remains as the only originally religious holiday on the US official calendar.
However some of the references in the special are contexturally dated. Some still stand on their own now, but at the time they were parodies of false True Meaning of Christmas movies and shows popular in 1965.
Lots of references and jabs at Miracle on 34th Street...the most popular Christmas show before 65...that is pretty much a Macy's and Gimbles PR film.
A kid too mature and jaded to just enjoy Christmas.
The quack psychiatrist resolving nothing.
Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern Syndicate you know.
The letter to Santa (which Schultz had lampooned several times in the strip and would in the Great Pumpkin).
The play is basically a parody of all the TV sitcom Christmas episodes like Danny Thomas and Dick van Dyke Show which become stage musical variety shows. White Christmas, Holiday Inn and the jazz crooners that did tawdry Christmas comedies and office party humor like Rudolph the year before.
All of that is in the first 20 minutes, then it is stripped away for a genuine message. Sort of a sneak attack.
I blame the anti-Christian climate of our modern society.
Brought to you by Coca Cola. That is Irony kids .
it was peanuts that introduced me to jazz
Same and I still listen to jazz today.
the CBS suits were also really pissed off that Santa wasn't in the Charlie Brown Xmas special
I watched the first airing. I was quite young but I remember seeing it on the old 13 inch black and white RCA. Along with The Grinch who Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, it became a staple of Christmas for many years, (why am I such a misfit...still one of my favorite tunes from my youth).
I'm glad they didn't give snoopy a voice. Having him move silently, whether he's skating, or evading capture by the Germans after his Sopwith Camel was taken out by the Red Barron adds to his charm. I do love the way he weeps when Schroeder plays the WWI tunes on his little piano. Snoopy was so cool NASA named a spacecraft after him. Doesn't get much better than that.
I'm glad I was a kid when shows like this were being produced. I feel for kids today. We had Peanuts, Bullwinkle and Rocky, and Looney Tunes. No messaging, just good old fashioned fun, something our society doesn't do anymore. We have become a bunch of uptight, easily offended wimps who don't know how to laugh at the absurd, and trust me, there is more than enough absurd stuff to laugh at these days. As an aging coot my advice to the younger generation would be the same Sgt. Hulka passed along. "Lighten up Francis."
Many of the things I love were hated by executives. Blade Runner for example. It's a miracle such special projects get made.
People who are experts don't always know what is best. I've experienced this many times in my professional life, as I'm sure many have.
In the arts its usually those that break the molds that become the most memorable. Martin Scorcese comes to mind.
@@thereismoretothestory Van Gogh only sold a single painting in his life, and it was to his brother. People tend to drift towards what is trending or familiar, overlooking what is unique and special--until someone with the eye points it out to everyone else.
I was in the 2nd grade when this first aired. Love Charlie Brown Christmas.
I'm glad he had that mind set, about if I don't who will ?
I am as well. Even in the 60's it was a brave stand to take. I had read years ago that Schultz was ready to walk away if it was not included. I could not find the reference for that so I left it out.
Schultz also took heat when he included Franklin in the comic strip, and stood by the decision at the risk of losing newspapers.
Mentioning Vince Guaraldi here, he has another claim to fame, writing the tune, and a fellow named Werber providing lyrics to *Cast Your Fate To The Wind* which was a 1964 instrumental hit for British orchestra, Sounds Orchestral on British PYE's subsidiary label, Piccadilly (Issue No. 7N-35206) and a 1963 vocal hit for Mel Torme as "Cast Your Fate To The Winds"(adding an 's' to the title), issued as Atlantic 45-2183.
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" has always been a special favourite of mine. For those who might be interested, you can find it out here on UA-cam. Mr. Guaraldi was a wonderful talent and a great pick for the television special, "Charlie Brown Christmas." Cheers to all!
Wonderful video on an all-time-great Christmas special. In the mid 80s when I was a piano student, I received a book of sheet music for several songs, one of which is the song "Linus & Lucy." Unfortunately, I did not learn to play the song with any proficiency, but I still have the book well preserved in a frame hanging on a wall. ☺
Thank you for watching. I don't know anything about playing music, but I've been told by those that do that Linus and Lucy is more difficult to play than it sounds.
I have four Vincent Guaraldi cd's of Peanuts music and listen to them often. Interesting how he would change up the instrumentals a little and do different versions of the same selections.
@@thereismoretothestory playing the song takes a lot more hand movement than I was accustomed to doing at the time as I was learning how to play piano in general, hence my difficulty in trying to learn the piece. And unfortunately, my piano lessons only lasted a couple of years while I was in jr. high school so I never did get a feel for playing the tune.
On the cartoon bright-side, I learned how to play simplified versions of "Popeye the Sailor Man" and the theme for "The Pink Panther." lol
I also love Jazz because of Charlie Brown.
For some strange reason, the dirty kid that went around in a haze of dust was my favourite character.
@@Angel-eq9tq "Pig-Pen, you're the only person I know who can raise a cloud of dust in a snowstorm." -Charlie Brown
@@skyden24195 😊 Thank you, I never knew his name.
I remember watching this for the 1st time in 1970... I remember that specifically because we Lived in San Jose, CA and were visiting family in South Texas.
So much I didn't know about this special. Thank you so much for posting this
This show is seven days younger than me.
I watched it on the very first night that it ever aired (I was 4 at the time) and have rarely missed it since. Unfortunately, with the disgusting greediness, that has taken it off "free" TV (Ironic as it's main theme is a rant against commercialism), I have missed it a couple of times, more recently! This year, I found a "link page" on You Tube, that sent me to a free video page, watched it and bookmarked it... 3 days later, I hit the bookmark and it had already been taken down! 😑I guess next year, I will do what I had to do with the Chuck Jones version of the Grinch and buy the DVD. 🤨
This is a very interesting follow up to the 1963 documentary that I just watched. It is mentioned in this video. (Also on UA-cam) I am so thankful to these channels that give us glimpses into the past.
7:22 These were the same men who chose Lost in Space over Star Trek. They were paid a vast sum to make these decisions, as people with such incredible perspicacity are scarce.
As soon as the ratings were known, CBS executives were amazed that more than half of all TV sets in the U.S. had watched the special- and that it was CBS' highest-rated program that evening. Of course, the next time they met with Lee Mendelson. they asked, "When can you have the next 'Peanuts' special ready?"
I have a weeping cherry tree that when I brought it home my husband said it looked like Charlie brown’s tree. He has been called Charlie since although he has grown magnificently👏😀 we still refer to him as Charlie when he needs taken care of
I had 12 more days to go before being born when this aired. My 12 days of Christmas.
Too young to remember the special's first airing,but the first movie I ever saw in the theater was "Race for your life,Charlie Brown",my mom took my brother and I back when I was about 4 or 5 years old.
My wife and I just watched and really enjoyed the back story. Excellent job! Thanks
Many classics are derided before their value is proven.
I really hope your channel continues to grow. The video a you’ve already posted are interesting and well researched. Can’t wait to see what the new year holds for you.
I wish cbs still showed it
I think only reason why they cancel it is because I talk about religion in it.. Charles Schulz was a religious man and he was right to do what he wanted to do with that show I agree with Charles Schulz 100%... That's the true meaning of Christmas after all wasn't Santa Claus.. just because it's a Christmas show doesn't mean they have to put Santa Claus in it let's have a show that has the truth in it for a change way to go sparky
The strips weren’t very religious they really just had Bible passages in it
Amen brother! 🙏
Schulz was a man of mixed beliefs. He never intended for the short to be anything religious, but he also didn't see any issue with using religious quotes in the film since it's really the main reason christmas was originally celebrated.
Not sure what any of this is based on as Charlie Brown Christmas has never been cancelled (the rights have changed based on who buys it) and there's still tons of religious references on tv.
Oh good grief. When I was a child, born in 1963, you could only see this show once every year. Now, you can buy the DVD, download it online, and watch it anytime you desire. It used to be an event, but no more. That's why they stopped airing it every year, ratings, advertising dollars. It's because of money, and not religion.
I made sure my grandkids and great grandkids had the Charlie Brown movies that way they can watch year round the christmas Thanksgiving Halloween the summer vacation and the trip to Europe were all great shows for kids to watch
Wonder if the CBS execs that hated it were the same ones that greenlit the Star Wars Holiday Special?
The feel the best version of Christmas Time is Here was done by Mercy Me.
So sad. As one of the kids who sang it in the show I am kind of attached to the original😊. Dave Willat
Thanks for the history lesson.
I just turned 14 and in the 8th grade when A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on KSL channel 5 in Salt Lake City. Of course, we had a Magnavox portable black and white TV but that did not dampen my enthusiasm as the story unfolded in all its Peanuts glory. The 30 minute show was so uplifting and I wanted to see it again. Well, so did everyone else as it airs every year on some channel or network. By the way, The Vince Guaraldi Trio was not a new musical surprise that debuted in this now perennial masterpiece. Local disc jockey Will Lucas of the erstwhiler KALL radio in Salt Lake City had been reading the daily Peanuts comic strip from the tribune Monday through Friday on his morning show since the early 1960's. To the backdrop of Vince Guaraldi's Lucy and Linus soundtrack! How appropriate!
Immediately following the premiere and the phone lines at CBS headquarters began lighting up, the executives present were expecting to hear a litany of complaints. Instead, as one executive described it, “all Heaven broke loose.”
Love this special been watching this since I was 7 in 1991 cbs and abc use to air it now I have to watch it on bootlegged websites 🎉
The SNL TV Funhouse spin of this special was over the top hilarious. And it was done with the blessing of Schulz. I watch it every year
This was great! Thank you!
I’m not sure how much Coke was sold as a result of the special, but I’m sure they sold a lot of Dolly Madison cakes because of it in following years.
I was thinking the same thing when it said Coke was it's original sponsor. I always remember Peanuts being sponsored by Dolly Madison. Must be our age to remember this.
Makes one wonder, how many great tv show's were never made, because CBS didn't like them.
Everyone has mispronounced Charles' name for so long that it spawned his own Mandela Effect. It is Schulz not Schultz like Hogan's Heroes John Banner. By the way, Hogan's Heroes, another CBS show, was in its first season when this aired.
Look at Hollywood today and the blend of streaming and broadcast executives. Today, A Charlie Brown Christmas would NEVER get green-lighted. Charles Schultz was his own man and true to himself, something reflected in this special. I live down the street from his childhood home which was in a building recently torn down. Much of the old neighborhood is intact and the old vibe still comes through.
Love this content, looking forward to more videos from you…we subscribed and wish you much success on your channel. Merry Christmas Happy New Year!🎄🌟🙏❄
1:56 Linus got back!
I was glad to find it on the internet so I could download it as I wouldn't be seeing it on TV.
Whoa...Where did you find all this cool inside information?! What's your source?...Did you read Charles Schulz's life story in a book? Thanks for enlightening! Impressive.
remember if the network hates it. then its a good show they put on any way it's a hit gets good ratings makes money then they love it.
Even as a child I never understood the Hans Christian Anderson story. Even suspending disbelief long enough to imagine a tree having consciousness, why would it want to be chopped down, then adorned with decorations as it died over the course of several days, and afterwards probably just thrown out with the trash? Sounds like a horrible demise.
Why is it so hard to believe that a tree can harbor consciousness?
@@arthurbiniss5432 Ok, let's say they do. That makes the story even that much more worse. It's murder.
I guess the Lorax wasn't there to speak for it? 🤔
@@darrelwood2102 has nothing to do with my point but whatevs
So many Hans Christian Anderson stories were all about suffering and sacrifice.
been watching sincew 65
Even if it almost never aired in 1965 by CBS, somewhere down the road another network would have picked it up.
love this show
I will never forgive Apple for stealing this treasure 😢
Thank you for watching. I hope learning a little bit about the history of it gave you even more appreciation for the show as it did for me when I was researching.
It is a shame that CBS gave it up. I hate to think that, in the future, it might only be seen by those who subscribe to certain streaming platforms.
I grew up in an era before home video, so being able to watch it every year made it all the more special. If you missed it. That was it until next Christmas season.
When I first saw it, I thought it sucked. The animation is just so horrid, and I thought it was just a typical Charlie Brown comic strip.
Now, all these decades later, it has a certain charm to it but at the end of the day I think only the music score saved it from the trash bin.
The show was second only to Banana
WOW !!🥰
Great stuff!
I didn't watch it, sorry. To me it became nonexistent when Apple Corp bought it and made it exclusive. Talk about a "bad Apple" company! I own no Apple products.
You're not upset that Coca-Cola wanted it as basically a major sponser for Coke? You're not upset a broadcasting company was making probably more money than Schultz or the Producers did. And that you'd be ok with 5 minutes worth of advertising was shown every year. I don't order things from Amazon. But if the show was on Amazon Prime would you be just as critical?
@@leftcoaster67 yes. When I started watching this there were adds, it's what I grew up with. My parents explained that we have to suffer through the ads to keep tv free. I'm not upset that Apple owns it, although I despise the company for claiming to be a US company, I'm upset that any pay service owns it. As for Apple, they think in this country, they produce nothing in the US, zero of their products have anything made in the USA.
Well, go figure. The Charlie Brown Christmas movie references the true meaning of Christmas in contrast to the commercialization of it, so naturally cBS would have been against it.
The last time I saw this on network tv it had a warning message up front "Warning this show has content that may be offensive to some". Really? That is where we are in terms of not wanting to offend anyone? It is Christmas. If those of other faiths want to make a show reflecting their faiths go ahead. I will watch it or not based on my desire. Everyone has the choice to choose a different channel or just turn the set off.
My mom and sister are giving in to cancel culture regarding Charlie Brown. "It's bullying" "It's peer pressure" "Linus is too old to have a blanket and suck his thumb"
damn that’s crazy
I enjoyed that.
The "In God we trust" USA, doesn't want Christ in a Christmas special?
USA or USSR of America?
Pssst. Rob, it’s IN the Christmas special. Has been every year it has aired. I know facts ruin a great rant, but you’re going off the deep end.
@@brianarbenz1329 If you listen to the documentary they almost didn't have Linus say those lines from the Book of Luke.
For some reason they didn't want a Christian statement in the feature.
@@TheAnubis57 They DID have him say the lines! They DID! How many times do you hear that they did something and think you're hearing they didn't. Of course the false martyr syndrome causes that. Christianity has government privileges other religions don't. The national motto of the U.S. was "Out of Many, One," until the government forcibly changed it in the 1950s to favor one religion over all others, unconstitutionally. It caused evangelicals to develop the expectations of the entitled mindset.
Yeah I heard
Repent and put your trust in Jesus. We're all sinners and deserve Hell, but Christ died on the cross for our sins. Anybody who puts their trust in Jesus will be saved.
Read Roman's 3:10 and Revalation 3:20
"And they shall stand in despair before the white cliffs of the world, and shall chant from their empty tomes in vain, for their words are nothing! And Erú shall prevail against His enemies and they shall be cast into the Void, for their enchantments are naught and their gods are helpless before Him." (The Silmarillion, 17:82)
*¡enjoyed at 9:01 pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, 25 December 2022 Common Era or CE formerly known as Ano Domini or AD!*
These days the execs (and idiot focus groups) get the final say on everything aired, and consequently TV sucks.
I like the 1992 sequel better.
No dogs allowed!
thank you
P.S. So very happy CBS was wrong…wasn’t the first time either!😉
The only thing you left out was who sang the kids chorus lines on the soundtrack? Was a kids choir used?
Correct. they were from the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael. After the first recording session, a couple of the kids were replaced, since they took the kids out for ice cream after the session, they didn't get home until *very* late (on a school night), and there were some irate parents. The director (naturally) wanted perfect takes, but in the spirit of the production, slightly less perfect takes were selected.
We’re you in the choir? Your facts are exactly correct-from one of the kids who sang in the show-Dave Willat
@@davidwillat7474 Are you saying you sang on the soundtracks?
@@georgefurman7652 Yes
See the December 2021 CBS Sunday Morning-ua-cam.com/video/0PmI-yT51IU/v-deo.html
8:11 "So there you have 10 things you never knew about a special that anyone born after 1965 almost never saw." Do you have any idea what you're saying??
Ang yet Paramounr bought them out .
It's a little dated now. Needs more T&A.
25,000 views, over 1200 likes & 250/subscribers???come on people you can do better than this❤
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for your encouraging words. It may sound strange, but I had not had time to check on the views due to my schedule. So when I saw your comment, I thought was a typo.
Be sure to take a look at the other videos. If you're an Andy Griffith fan I've got one on Don Knotts, and one on A Christmas Story. I'm working on one now about one of Bill Murray's films, so be sure to check back.
I don't mean to be rude but its really distracting how the narrator doesn't pronounce the t in peanuts.
Please forgive the pronunciation. The three videos on my channel are the only things I've ever narrated so I'm sure my skills will improve.
Thanks for watching.
bowlestrek ?
Never saw it once this Christmas. Perhaps it has been banned because of the Christian message.
It's on Apple now. No more freebies for us.